Govt plans to boost economy by earmarking Shs 600 Billion in the next financial year specifically to capitalize banks and financial institutions COMMENT | Caroline Kainomugisha | When the financial market is characterized by low financial inclusion, high-interest rates and therefore low investments and growth in the economy, one of the …
Read More »Which way, Uganda Tourism Board?
COMMENT | By Amos Wekesa | Yesterday evening at Sheraton Hotel, Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) old guards officially handed over power to the new guards…… While sitting at the back with fellow tour operators ,I listened to different speeches. Some speeches were good, others just okay but looks like no one wanted …
Read More »African continental integration is long overdue
COMMENT | Besi Ndereya | The 1960’s press clippings and portraits of African leaders still linger in the thoughts of many. Here was a generation of men standing at the precipice of an African renaissance. More often, each had courageously fought off the yoke of colonialism; liberating his people in the …
Read More »The Rwanda-Uganda conflict
How Kampala has mismanaged her relations with Kigali and why Rwanda closed her border THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Let me do what politicians always do – claim they run for office due to popular demand. Many people have been asking me to comment on the heightened …
Read More »IRYN: There were so many signs before the boat went down
THE DAY THE BOAT WENT DOWN IN NALUBAALE, THERE WERE SO MANY SIGNS MY STORY | Iryn Namubiru | On Friday night, I tried to sleep. I could not. There is a born again church nearby and they started praying very early and never stopped. I could hear the speakers, you …
Read More »Museveni: My comment on recent crime incidents
Kampala, Uganda | YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI | COMMENT | Comments by President Yoweri Museveni on recent criminal activities across Uganda. FULL TEXT Dear Countrymen, Countrywomen and Bazzukulu. There were two incidents of crime that I would like to draw to your attention. One was in the Najjera area where one of …
Read More »The fall of Jennifer Musisi
COMMENT | Andrew M. Mwenda | Finally Jennifer Musisi has resigned as executive director of KCCA. This was inevitable. However, her resignation points to a deeper malady that our nation faces: the gulf between our theoretical ambitions and the pettiness of our politics. Musisi has fallen because she aspired …
Read More »THE LAST WORD: Recasting debates on development
What a reading of Marx and Lenin teaches us about the effects of multinational capital on poor nations THE LAST WORD | Andrew Mwenda | Raymond Mujuni of NBS television tweeted that he has began his masters’ degree in development studies with a reading of Karl Marx. This column is …
Read More »Uganda poised to become the largest dairy exporter in Africa
SNV’s Rinus van Klinken shares his thoughts on why dairy may soon top Uganda’s export products after coffee BLOG | RINUS VAN KLINKEN | The dairy sector is slowly inching its way into Uganda’s top exports, next to coffee and tea. The pull of the exporters is largely responsible for this …
Read More »In defence of social media tax
THE LAST WORD: Why taxing mobile money and social media is a politically revolutionary act that may help improve our democracy THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Since government introduced a tax on mobile money and social media, there has been deafening opposition to it from every …
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